Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-06-04
GENERAL NEWS

Secretary Lamar declares G06t III tuo Ibli
road indemnity land will be thrown opel
70 settlement just ''as soon as the depart
ment is in possession of information tina
will enable It to act intelliRently." He ais
announces his intention to sweep away tn
Numerous leases of Indian lands by cattle
men, all of whicn were made WI 'hout authorl
ty of law. It seems, after all, that tn
secretary is really Gin dead earnest" In hi
campaign against the land-grsbbers.
The supreme court has rendered q deci
sion In the famous drive-well cases, affirm
ing the validity of the patents. ALI person.
using such wells must therefore pay
royalty. The decision will affect thous nd
of W stern farmers.
The president has written letter anuounc
ing his inability to attend the dedication o.
the soldiers monument at NeE Haven OF
June II, and expressing the patriotic senti
ments appropriate to the occasion In M!
usual felicitous style.
Last weeks changes in the visible stocks
of grain in this country showed decrease
in wheat of 1,45O, O39 bushels, in corn OF
651, 1886 bushels, and in oats of S6,9O7 bush
els. The stock of wheat at the present time
amounts to 1908, 467 bushels, against 81, >
81, 315 bushels year ago.
In the Illinois legislature considerable
time was devoted to prison matters. The
house, being in committee, was addres sed
BY Warden McClaughry Of Joliet, DR.. Wines
of the state board of charities, and Peniten-
tiary Commissioners Jones and Wright.
These gentlemen, with ono exception, advo-
GATED the project of reformatory for first
termers." The pending bill, one of which
appropriates $136, 900 for the establishment
of manufacturing plants at the prisons, and
the other provides for the erection of a re-
formatory to cost $4,000, were made the
special order for Thursday of next week,
when the bill to change the Chester peniten-
tiary into reformatory will also be consid-
cred.
Arumor comes from Vienna that the car
returned from the Don Cossack country to
st. Petersburg three days sooner than he
had intended to, owing to an attempt upon
his life during the festivities at Novo Toher-
kask. 1t seems that the autocrat of all the
Russias is not safe IN any pert of his extern
sive dominions.
Cattle are cheaper that at any time in the
last eight years. The best beeves are selling
at the Chicago stock. yards at 81 80 to 81 GO
per Il o pounds, and prices are likely to 60
even lower if the supply is not curtalled.
Surgeon General Hamilton expresses the
opinion that the yellow fever at Key West,
Florida, will be confined within its present
limits.
Commodore Davidson, the millionaire
steamboatman, was stricken with apoplexy
at st. Paul. The stroke il believed to be
fatal. I.
The Presbyterian general assembly south
will hold its next meeting at Baltimore in
May; 1885, and will unite with the northern
assembly at Philadelphia during the same
month in celebrating the centennial ami
versary of the reformed presbytery of
America.
The situation in the disturbed districts o
Belgium grows more alarming daily. The
ranks of the strikers are receiving large
aOcossions.
Canon Fleming declares that his use of
one Of Talmage's sermons in his new volume
of discourses was an "act of inadvertency,"
and tenders his apologies to the Brooklyn
parson.
Mrs. Patrick O'Brien, of New Haven,
Come cticut, celebrated the queens Dir shday
Tuesday, by draping the front of her house
in black and conspicuously displaying such
pleasing notices as "God Save Ireland from
the Widow of John Brown" In the evening
her majesty and Lord Lansdowne we're
burned in efigy in front of the O'Brien
mansion.
Joseph Chamberlain seems TO be disoour.
aged about the political prospects in Eng
land. In q printed letter be tells the sup
porters of the government Irish policy that
unless they organize they will surely be
beaten.
The Illinois legislature has passed bill
appropriating $35 600 for the relief of James
Lille, the contractor for building the in
sane asylum at Kankakee, who is claimed to
have been damaged to that extent by the
failure of the state to keep the contract.
The Illinois legislature has passed joint
resolution instructing the attorney general
and the railroad and warehouse commission
10 proceed against the Ohio and Mississippi
railroad for alleged failure to comp with
The constitution of the state.
An official state ment IS to the condition
of the crown prince of Germany, which has
Just been made, affords little reason to an
ticipate his recovery.
The excitement over the railroad question
in Manitoba is increasing. At Winnipeg,
Sir George Stephen and Mr.. Van Horne, OF
tho Canadian Pacific, were burned in effgy.
Proposals for building the new railway will
be advertised for by the provincial govern
NEXT next week.
ed assistant register of the treasury.
Re ctories in Belgium are compelled to use
German coal on account of the miners
strikes, and the railroads will soon be obliged
to do likewise if the strikes continue.
Petroleum conduits near Batonn, Russia
some of which belonged 10 the Roths childs,
have bsen destroyed with dynamite. The
Outrage is not attributed to nihilists, but is
said to have beer inspired by ''trade |
jealousy" Perhaps the Rothschilds have
been doing business at Batoum en- the
standard oil plan.
A freight train on the Northern Pacific |
was wrecked near Minot, Dakota, the engi- |
neer end brakeman being instantly killed. |
The earl Of Meath is dead at the age of "a
A Oonstantinople dispatch says number |
of high Turkish officials have been dis |
missed, having been detected in q conspi |
racy to overthrow the sultan. From Buch- |
Arrest comes q report of plot to assassinate |
his unfortu late majesty, which is said to
have been recently discovered. Tho sultan |
can hardly be enjoying life much better |